almost home

[flyerme]

Is it normal to keep checking on your new plane every 5 mins,? fitted the new super fast red fluffly seat covers but have question? where do I hang the fluffly dice?

 

 

[facthunter]

I wouldn't fly a "dicey" plane. You might be out of luck. Nev

 

 

[facthunter]

You mustn't read my posts very thoroughly MM because I don't believe in teaching techniques on a forum. If my students were getting information from forums I would like to be aware of it and check what sort of knowledge is being passed on, as wrong impressions can be had. This is why I made my comments on giving quite fullsome accounts of aero's, spinning etc which can be a problem. Some people do go and do these things on the basis of the most elementary information. It does happen and I have lost a lot of good friends in U/L's. My approach has been advice to do the training in the right plane with the right instructor. I believe ALL instructors should do Emergency manoeuver training. ( not aerobatics, which is something else)

 

My constant emphasis on a culture of safety should not be in question as to whether I do it. Whether many want to listen is questionable at times. I also bore myself stupid doing it and get a lot pi$$ed off when some say we don't want all that stuff we just want to fly our planes, and then go and crash and hurt (or kill) themselves and put our sport in jeopardy.

 

Putting disclaimers as you suggest doesn't have any effect and in some cases maybe whets their appetite or curiosity. Nev

 

 

[motzartmerv]

Yes, and the rules are not a technique being taught. No conjecture, or one instructor having a different version, they are the same for us all. ;) even a student pilot can school any of us in the rules :)

 

 

[billwoodmason]

Flyerme - Great to see everything turned out ok and after the feeding frenzy you still have a sense of humour. Happy flying !!.

 

 

[flyerme]

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Flyerme - Great to see everything turned out ok and after the feeding frenzy you still have a sense of humour. Happy flying !!.

well lifes too short for moping around,,and hell I LOVE YOU GUYS.. and all this bickering proves to me we truely are a family....

 

 

[David Isaac]

Good attitude Tim,

 

Stay alive buddy, we are always learning, stick around to teach that 5 year old.

 

I'll have to drop in if ever I get that old Auster of mine flying, your 360 metre strip no problem for the old J1B.

 

I have a son on the Eyre at Tumby Bay, so it is only a matter of time and I will be down there.

 

 

[flyerme]

Good attitude Tim,Stay alive buddy, we are always learning, stick around to teach that 5 year old.

I'll have to drop in if ever I get that old Auster of mine flying, your 360 metre strip no problem for the old J1B.

 

I have a son on the Eyre at Tumby Bay, so it is only a matter of time and I will be down there.

look forward to it ,I almost went for an Auster but it sold...

 

 

[Guest nunans]

Tim (as I believe is the pilot) this comment is not directed at you.This post and you wonder why people get up in arms about the level of training/instruction etc. Tim (on his own I believe for all but the last leg) has just gone and picked up an aircraft flown it 170 NM+ and you post "Tim landed at his strip and I barely had to do anything" of course you shouldn't have had to do anything, flying is not a game to be played and its really good if you finish, its serious and before you go off into the wide blue younder you are supposed to be competent (maybe not comfortable) to handle all situations (high winds, x-winds, crap weather and turbulnce) on your own.

If this post is reflective of RAA then the sooner it is incorporated into GA and the training required is the same as a GA PPL the safer we will all be, and before you all get on your high horses about how there are GA pilots that don't meet the grade as well I'm well aware of that fact also.

 

RAA alows us (me included, although I fly to GA requirements all the time including radio calls and area broardcasts on the relevent frequencies to allow all airspace users to know where I am and where I'm going at all times, hemispherical VFR levels both above and below 5000 ft to improve the safety margins i.e. even thousands + 500 and odd thousands + 500) a very broard operting range and if we want to keep that privilege we all need to pick up the game and get our Sh.t together before it is taken away.

 

I know a lot of you will not agree with me and I don't care if you do or you don't (toughen up princesses and deal with it), if you continue the way you are going you won't have an organisation.

 

Allan

 

(anyone wants to discuss outside this forum I'll be happy to do so- 0429 674 790)

Where's the dislike post button?

 

So many things i'd love to say....

 

 

[Aldo]

Where's the dislike post button?So many things i'd love to say....

Nunans dislike my post as much as you like and by all means go ahead and have your say, that's what forums like this one are all about just be prepared to have people take you to task about your comments, or go one step further and give me a call and we can discuss it that way, my number is listed above.

 

If you have read the entire thread you will find that the content in the original post has been changed quite significently, I stand by what I posted and I know a few others agree.

 

Allan

 

 

[sain]

Guys, can I suggest you go back and read your posts in this thread. Some of you come off like well intentioned but distinctly frothing loons. How about you focus on education next time, not so much on the castigation and castration? Once (or maybe once each) is enough - after all, we want people to come back on here and learn more. If you make people feel like a whipped dog they wont stay.

 

Pilots who fly from regular airports / strips will at least get correction from other pilots if they do something stupid. Flyme will have nobody watching over his shoulder, outside of biannual reviews, so scaring him off from posting about his flying is just stupid, and wasting an opportunity to help him and anybody else who might benefit from an opportunity to learn something.